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Wellcome Collection joins forces with Chinese Arts Centre to produce a major two-day symposium tackling the idea of identity in contemporary China.

Researchers at King's College London have been awarded £10 million from the Wellcome Trust and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop…

New research uncovers two genetic regions that influence birth weight. One of the regions is also associated with type 2 diabetes, which helps to explain why small babies…

Providing clean delivery kits and improving birthing practices could halve the number of neonatal deaths following home births in South Asia, according to research funded by…

British writer and director Jonathan Glazer ('Under The Skin', 'Birth', 'Sexy Beast') has been named the 2014 Wellcome Trust and BFI Screenwriting Fellow in association with…

A pregnant mother’s diet may be able to interact with the genes her unborn child inherits and influence the type or severity of birth defect according to research funded by…

One group of UK students could be about to follow in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on a voyage to the Galapagos Islands. The trip is first prize in a competition being…

When Professor Henry Higgins instructed Eliza Doolittle that it was “Ay not I, O not Ow, Don’t say ‘Rine,’ say ‘Rain’”, he was drawing on years of experience as a professor…

Researchers have identified four new genetic regions that influence birth weight, providing further evidence that genes as well as maternal nutrition are important for growth…

A study of almost 3800 pregnancies has provided the most accurate and direct evidence to date that malaria infection reduces early fetal growth. Low birth weight is the most…

Surgeons will be able to use better tools, imaging techniques and therapies in future operations on unborn babies due to a £10 million award from the Wellcome Trust and the…

The archive of NCT (National Childbirth Trust) documenting 60 years of the organisation's history, has been catalogued by the Wellcome Library and is available to access for…

A new longitudinal birth cohort study could revolutionise our understanding of how early childhood experiences impact health in later life. Saz Ahmed, Wellcome Research…

Wellcome has awarded £17m to 9 different research projects around the world to investigate how extreme heat is impacting maternal and child health. 

Women’s community groups have had a dramatic effect on reducing neonatal mortality rates in some of the poorest areas of India, according to a study published today in the ‘…

Ahead of this years World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Head of Intervention in Wellcome's Infectious Disease team, discusses the growing risk of drug-resistant infections…

Learn about Wellcome’s approach to supporting longitudinal population studies and why they’re such an important resource.

People who have or are at risk of clinical depression could benefit from a new major medical research initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust. The University of Edinburgh has…

A rare medieval manuscript threatened with exile abroad has been bought by the UK's leading library for the history of medicine and is available to the public today for the…